No African American woman has ever served on the United States Supreme Court. The first woman to be appointed to the Court was Sandra Day O'Connor. The first African American to be appointed to the Court was Thurgood Marshall.
There has not been an African American Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first African American Associate Justice was the Honorable Thurgood Marshall.
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The first African-American to serve on the US Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall, who was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Thurgood Marshall, who successfully argued Brown versus the Board of Education before the Supreme Court was appointed he first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court afterwards.
At the moment, Clarence Thomas, who was nominated by George H. W. Bush in 1991, is the only African-American on the Court. He replaced Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991), the first African-American to serve as Supreme Court Justice, upon Marshall's retirement.There have only been two African-Americans on the US Supreme Court to date.
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he was the first African American to be served as a justice of the supreme court.
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